"The Summoning"

They Made A Day Be A Day Here considers the shifting identities of contemporary artists on the Prairies. A dozen artists – Amalie Atkins, Heather Benning, Jennifer Bowes, Tammi Campbell, Brenda Draney, Sarah Anne Johnson, Wednesday Lupypciw, Maria Madacky, Mary-Anne McTrowe, Divya Mehra, Jennifer Stillwell and Leesa Streifler – address issues of time, labour and place, exploring histories and methodologies that range from craft to modernism. Guest curator Amy Fung, who met hundreds of artists between 2007 and 2011, says the show is a reflection on invisibility in artistic labour. “Conversations can reverberate as resonances of a specific time and place, conjuring a shade of purpose and identity,” she says. “We were all isolated geographically and perhaps politically, but we each held a space, and together we made a place.”